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Subject: TBS To Air Single Elimination Wild Card Baseball Playoff Games; MLB
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http://fangsbites.com/2012/05/tbs-to-air-single-elimination-wild-card-playo=
ff-games-mlb-network-to-air-postseason-too/

Major League Baseball and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. announced
today that TBS will exclusively televise the American League and
National League Wild Card games in 2012 and 2013. The new Postseason
format will feature the two Wild Card teams in the American League and
National League playing in a single-elimination game with each winner
advancing to compete with the three division champions from its League
in the Division Series. MLB also announced that two Division Series
games in each of the 2012 and 2013 Postseasons will shift from TBS to
MLB Network.

Turner=92s partnership with MLB spans more than 35 years. TBS has
televised all MLB Division Series games and one League Championship
Series each year since 2007. In 2012, the network will televise 18 of
20 potential Division Series games and will have exclusive coverage of
the American League Championship Series (ALCS). In addition to the MLB
Postseason, TBS televises a 26-game =93Sunday MLB on TBS=94 regular season
schedule and is the exclusive home of the 2012 MLB All-Star Selection
Show airing July 1.

TBS will also continue to televise any necessary regular season tie-
breaker games. The network has recently aired three memorable regular
season tie-breakers, including Padres vs. Rockies in 2007, Twins vs.
White Sox in 2008, and Tigers vs. Twins in 2009.

MLB Network will exclusively televise two Division Series games in
each of the next two years, marking the first time MLB Network will
air live Postseason games. MLB Network has produced weekly original
game telecasts since its inaugural season in 2009.  With a roster of
on-air talent including Bob Costas, Jim Kaat, Al Leiter, Harold
Reynolds and Matt Vasgersian, MLB Network has received 28 Sports Emmy
Award nominations and nine Sports Emmy Awards.

=93The new format will create two compelling Wild Card match-ups for
fans that will begin our Postseason with unprecedented pressure and
implications,=94 said Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig. =93We are
confident that TBS will provide outstanding coverage and promotion of
the games. I am also very pleased that this arrangement allows for MLB
Network to air Postseason games for the first time. MLB Network has
done a remarkable job with its live game coverage and I am certain
that its extraordinary work will continue as it produces Postseason
games.=94

=93We applaud Major League Baseball on their decision to expand
Postseason eligibility and we=92re excited to build upon our long-
standing partnership with MLB by adding these highly anticipated
exclusive Wild Card games to our Postseason coverage on TBS,=94 said
David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for Turner
Broadcasting System, Inc. =93We believe the additional single-
elimination Wild Card spots will build upon the popularity of the
sport and will serve as a great launching pad for our Division Series
and ALCS coverage on TBS.=94

The new format this season marks the first amendment to the Postseason
since MLB utilized the six-division, eight-team Postseason structure
for the first time in 1995.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/484685-MLB_Network_to_Air_Postseas=
on_Games.php

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=3D212489.0